ward
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, ward sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1draw
- One letter away
- 19bard, card
What it means
- nouna person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
- nouna district into which a city or town is divided for the purpose of administration and elections
- nounblock forming a division of a hospital (or a suite of rooms) shared by patients who need a similar kind of care
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ao1 r d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
95 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abhorred
- aboard
- aboveboard
- accord
- adored
- afford
- award
- billboard
- blackboard
- board
- bored
- cardboard
- chord
- clipboard
- concord
- cord
- dashboard
- deplored
- explored
- floored
- ford
- gored
- gourd
- harpsichord
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: draw.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.